Hello and welcome to this Tech Community Tech Update, I am Allen Smith Technical & Compliance lead for the Microsoft Tech Community.
In this update I want to show you a feature we recently enabled on the Microsoft Tech Community to automatically generate a signature on your posts. The signature can be used to tell other community members who you work for, your job title, your preferred pronouns or a link to your company website.
Interested? let us dive in...
So here we are on the Microsoft Tech Community, any logged in user can create a signature, simply and easily by going to the avatar icon at the top right and clicking My Settings. Now click on Personal Information.
You will see here there is an 'enable signature' button this allows you to turn on and off your quickly and easily. It’s worth nothing that if you turn off your signature it will be removed from every post you have ever made, similarly when you turn it on it will appear in every post you made previously as well.
Be default your signature will show your first name and last name. If these boxes are blank then you should check with your identity provider, Microsoft Accounts such as outlook or live or your employers Microsoft Entra Admin who should be able to update this information for you.
The next option is Pronouns, this field is completely optional, you can choose a pronoun or not, you can choose to include any pronoun you select in the signature or not.
Now you can record your work email and include it in your signature or not by using the check box. Keep in mind that exposing your work email publicly could cause you to receive more spam or unsolicited content, and may also be against your company’s policy, if in doubt check.
Now you can include your Organization Name and then include it in the signature, or not, by using the check box.
Next up you can enter your job title and then choose to include it or not using the provided check box.
If you are interested in connecting with other community members in your locality you can enter it here and then decide if you want to share this information in your signature.
Finally, you can enter a personal / corporate web page or even a link to your LinkedIn, this should be used respectfully, we reserve the right to remove any harmful links or links which do not comply with our Terms of Use or Code of Conduct.
The thing to remember here is that except for your first and last name everything that is or is not included in your Signature is your choice.
Once you have chosen what you want to your signature to contain you can then choose from up to 3 different themes. Over time we may expand the number of themes we offer but we also are trying to keep signatures informative and not to distract from the community experience.
You can preview what your signature will look like.
Click save and your signature is now completed, you will be able to see it on any post you have made or choose to make going forward.
I hope that this new format for delivering updates was interesting and I hope you enjoy using the new signature feature. If you have any feedback comments or suggestions, please do comment below.
On behalf of the Microsoft Tech Community team, thank you for watching.
